Professor Dr. Hermann Knoflacher: Who can adequately react at 50 km/h ?

on Apr 27, 2013

Humans were not designed to go faster than 30 km/h, says Professor Dr. Hermann Knoflacher, Professor Emeritus and Director of the Institute for Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He agreed to support our European Citizens´ Initiative “30 km/h – making the streets liveable”. and be our first “ambassador”. In an interview he explained his reasons.

The power of 30K speed limit

on Apr 22, 2013

30 kph has been proven to work in theory and in practice. Let’s make it a European priority to limit speeds in our cities, says the European Cyclists´ Federation (ECF).

ECF has been supporting and will continue to support the 30 kmh citizens’ initiative .  The initiative seeks to force the European Commission to looking into the possibility of making 30 kph the default speed in urban areas.

Why do I support 30K speed limits

on Apr 11, 2013

Why would you support the 30Kmh campaign? Why are lower speed limits good for cyclists? What can be done about it? Here are some thoughts from the long time UK-bicycle user and road safety campaigner Rod King.

What “The Independent” writes about the ECI

on Jan 4, 2013

EU initiative could see 20mph lower limit in place by next year
Jonathan Brown; Wednesday, 2 January 2013

One million people are being urged to back the introduction of a default 20mph speed limit across all Europe’s residential and urban roads.
A continent-wide coalition of safety campaigners, environmentalists and community organisations will spend the coming months calling for supporters in the European Union’s 27 member states to add their names to an online petition which could see the lower limit of 30km/h become mandatory from next year.

Signature Gathering – First Milestones Achieved

on Dec 23, 2012

Good news! Firstly, the software problems are fixed and citizens can now sign in 12 different languages.
And secondly, citizens from all member states of the EU have already signed our initiative. The first hurdle of the EU law on European Citizens´ Initiatives (ECI) has been cleared.
For a successful ECI, at least three requirements of signature gathering must be fulfilled:

Welcome to new partners in the Czech Republic

on Dec 21, 2012

Three Czech organisations have just joined our network of partner organisations:

- Nadace Partnerství
- Národní strategie rozvoje cyklistické dopravy,
- Transport Research Centre (CDV)

This means that we have now cleared the magic hurdle of 50 organisations! We are excited to see our campaign growing and give a warm welcome to our new partners!

Problems with the online collection software!

on Dec 11, 2012

This European Citizens´ Initiative is part of a huge experiment. We can sense this every day reading the emails about failures of the collection software. Even more so as we cannot upload other languages due to programming errors. People in Finland, Greece, Portugal – all have to sign an English text, or they must wait.  However,